Nelson Dellis: ...you can train yourself to have a great memory

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Would you like to be able to remember things better? Do you struggle to remember the names of people you meet briefly at a party or in a work setting? Our guest, Nelson Dellis, can help. Nelson is a 4-time USA Memory Champion and one of the leading memory experts in the world. Nelson is also the author of "Remember It! The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget." His website is https://www.nelsondellis.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.3	And I'm Laura Owens. Would you like to be able to remember things better? Do you struggle to remember the names of people you meet briefly at a party or in a work setting?
0:23.5	I know I do.
0:24.6	Our guest Nelson Delis can help.
0:26.8	Nelson is a four-time USA Memory Champion and one of the leading memory experts in the world.
0:31.8	Nelson is also the author of Remember It, the names of people you meet, all of your passwords, where you left your keys,
0:39.6	and everything else you tend to forget. Nelson, thank you so much for joining us.
0:43.8	Yeah, thank you for having me. Happy to be here. You were born with an average memory, you say.
0:48.9	So how did you go from that to being a four-time USA memory champion.
0:56.8	Yeah, that sounds kind of far-fetched. Believe me, when I think about it, you know, growing up with kind of an average, nothing
1:01.4	special memory, it's bizarre to me that I have won anything related to memory.
1:08.5	But, you know, so I grew up with just an average memory, like you said, and my grandmother
1:13.8	struggled with Alzheimer's for a while. It eventually passed away when I was about 26 or so.
1:21.2	And that's kind of when I started getting interested in memory. I would look up and research a lot of,
1:26.9	you know, tips and tricks that could maybe help me as I get older to keep my brain straight and strong and my memory fine-tuned.
1:38.2	So one of the first things I discovered was memory techniques that have been around for thousands of years and these competitions where people are doing insane memory feats and that just hooked me and from
1:49.5	then on I was just doing it every day. I've always wondered why it is that we can remember the words
1:55.4	to a song like instincts bye by by for example but not dates or important things that would actually be applicable
2:02.1	to our own lives. Yeah, no, the memory is fascinating like that. I mean, you'll find for certain
2:08.6	people, something stick, you know, beyond anything else that they hope to stick. Well, for other
2:14.7	people, it's the reverse. And I think what it comes down to ultimately
2:18.8	is, well, maybe two things. One is kind of the medium of which the information is passed along.
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